So it's a no from Scotland to independence but far from a big one from those who voted.
The campaign was long and hard fought, and at times especially bitter.
It's politics, so maybe we expected the fight to be dirty.
Here's a look back at five of the dirty tactics employed and deployed during IndyRef 2014.
So there was a lot to listen to during the campaign but as politicians do gave us the
kind of sound-bites that mixed practicality with passion.
The rhetoric was used to persuade people to a cause or some say to panic voters to choose
Yes or No.
But as with any relationships some of those were going to hurt, especially when that relationship
is already 300 years old.
It's what you say afterwards when you stay together that's most important.
So actions should speak louder than words
Both sides have been accused of bully-boy tactics throughout their campaigns
On the No side...Labour MP Jim Murphy took his Irn-Bru crates around the country with more
effect in some places than others.
This was in Edinburgh but in Fife he suffered an egging.
He later said he had received death threats and was wrongly labelled a defender of paedophiles.
Ed Miliband's visit to a shopping centre in Edinburgh didn't go to plan.
It soon turned to chaos with yes activists shouting some tasty language, plenty of pushing
and shoving and reports that an old man and mum with a pushchair were threatened.
A minority mob maybe but clearly intimidation.
On the Yes side Alex Salmond said he'd been subjected to road rage and death threats but
generally Yes events weren't attended by the same level of opposition as no events.
A tap will leak and so too will Governments - if that's not a phrase that's been coined,
maybe it should be.
It's not new that information is leaked to the media for specific purposes.
But there was anger during this campaign after RBS's intention to relocate to London if Scotland
voted for independence, made news.
It ran front page which was deemed embarrassing for the Yes campaign.
Salmond demanded a formal inquiry and wrote to the PM saying:
"Your treasury has been involved in trying to destablise financial services in Scotland
- all in an attempt to frighten voters"
Cabinet Secretary Jeremy Heywood said they were just confirming contingency plans.
So, no solution to the dripping tap.......
Supporters of Scottish independence have been out in full force online.
Under the cloak of internet anonymity delivering vile, personalised attacks on political opponents
and then high profile people claiming unity.
But at times it came to the fore, like with the case of a mum of two kids, one who is
severely disabled.
She was used by union strategists to publicise an event and talk about the NHS and said to
be an ordinary person.
When it was discovered she was a Labour Party activist she got a load of online abuse from
nationalists.
Alex Salmond ended up getting his spokesman to apologise who had wrongly said she was
the daughter of a former Labour Lord.
But the damage had already been done.
Once the internet got it, there was always going to be a backlash.
And again there was trolling by supporters of both sides of the independence argument.
Ok, so it happens when you least expect it...or maybe it was planned.
But the announcement of the new royal baby has been criticised by some for being an establishment
ploy to create good feeling and sway people's minds.
September 8th saw the news of a second bairn revealed. Cue royal fever spreading across
the UK.
And the kind of headlines that read - Will new royal baby save the union?
Probably not, but then there is that phrase - Every Little Helps.
And when something considered big like this happens you've got to get on the bandwagon
even if you do politicise it.
Prime Minister David Cameron said congrats but then so did the Yes campaign boss Alex
Salmond who used their Scottish titles not Duke
and Duchess.